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Daniel Solove, Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have “Nothing to Hide”

Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have “Nothing to Hide”

Daniel Solove

READING COMPREHENSION QUIZ

Take the quiz below to check your comprehension of the reading selection:

Question 7.30

Which of the following is not an invasion of privacy mentioned in the article?

Being watched by a peeping Tom

Blackmail

Keeping a secret

Improper use of personal data

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

Question 7.31

The Kafkaesque metaphor focuses on what?

Problems caused by surveillance

Problems of self-control

Problems of information processing

Problems of information collection

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

Question 7.32

What is the assumption with the nothing-to-hide argument?

Privacy is about free speech

Privacy is about avoiding trouble

Privacy is about free association

Privacy is about hiding bad things

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is D.

Question 7.33

What is not a problem with the government gathering personal data?

Exclusion

Aggregation

National security

Distortion

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is C.

Question 7.34

Who of the following did not comment on privacy in this article?

Lev Vgostsky

Bruce Schneier

Geoffrey Stone

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Correct.

Incorrect. The answer is A.

READING SUMMARY

Question 7.35

Summarize “Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have ‘Nothing to Hide.’” Be sure to put the summary in your own words and to avoid using the sentence structure of the reading selection. Remember that your summary should restate the author’s main idea (or thesis) and that it should include only the author’s most important supporting ideas.

Below is an example summary of this reading selection: Privacy is a multidimensional idea that encompasses more than just having “nothing to hide.” It involves power and is often lost slowly over time. Advocates for privacy fear aggregation, exclusion, secondary use, distortion, and an imbalance of power. Your summary will differ from this one in the way it is written, but it should include roughly the same information.

VOCABULARY QUIZ

Explain the meaning of each of the following words as it is used in the reading:

Question 7.36

Formidable (par. 4)

Formidable means alarming or frightening.

Question 7.37

Dossier (par. 7)

Dossier means file or report.

Question 7.38

Incremental (par. 15)

Incremental means gradually or progressively.